CLRS volunteers gathered at Murray River Tea Rooms for a thank-you morning tea.
Photo by
JORDAN TOWNROW
This year’s National Volunteer Week theme is ‘Connecting Communities’, and volunteering with Community Living and Respite Services can help you connect to your community.
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CLRS is a community-based not-for-profit organisation operating for nearly 50 years in our local community. We are a local Disability Support and Out of Home Care service provider, registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and the Victorian Social Services Regulator, and we offer volunteering opportunities in both Echuca and Moama.
Volunteers can join in at any of CLRS’s social enterprises, which support people with disability to engage with their community.
Recyclability is a social enterprise that promotes the inclusion of people with a disability in the community. It comprises the Recyclability Op Shop and kerb-side collection program. Visit the Op Shop at 3/5 Murray Valley Hwy, Echuca, Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm, Saturday 10am to 1pm.
Murray River Tea Rooms Social Enterprise provides a safe and supportive environment where anyone can learn and develop new skills, and gain valuable experience in customer service and hospitality. You can visit the Murray River Tea Rooms for a catch-up with friends while enjoying coffee and cake at 10 Meninya St, Moama, Monday to Friday, 8am to 3pm.
We are currently looking for volunteers on a Saturday at the Recyclability Op Shop and Tuesdays and Fridays at the Murray River Tea Rooms. Volunteering gives you the opportunity to meet other volunteers, engage with the public and give back to your community.
Community Living and Respite Services’ Run Echuca Moama. Pictured are Angela Parker (Edge FM), Eleisha Catalano (edg.space) Hayley Newman (Beechworth Bakery), Abbey McCallum (edg.space), Nathan Dri, Rebekah Bachelor (Beechworth Bakery), Scott Christian (Radiant Media), Jim Cosgriff (Cosgriff Lawyers), Tegan Mills (Revolution Print), Leah Taaffe (CLRS chief executive and organiser), George Santos (Moama Bowling Club), Gillian Noelker (CLRS event organiser), Laura Buckley (Riverine Herald), Jaime Lake (Worklocker Echuca) and Kim Boland.
Photo by
Matthew Kappos
Fundraising is an important activity that volunteers support at CLRS. The fundraising activities include the annual fundraising dinner, Run Echuca Moama and the Riverboats Music Festival Raffle. Our volunteers have helped us raise over $1.8 million in the past 18 years. By volunteering as part of a fundraising activity you are connecting with your community, either through talking to business people who support the event, selling tickets or at the event itself helping in myriad ways.
With Run Echuca Moama coming up on August 3 we are looking for volunteers to help out on the day with various roles, including marshalling on course, handing out medals and race bibs. Last year we had 70 people volunteer with us and support 600 people to take part. If you are interested in volunteering at Run Echuca Moama you can register your interest via raceroster.com/events/2025/104665/run-echuca-moama-2025
Kim Boland, Mark Watson and Amelia Dean are thrilled that all fundraising efforts from Run Echuca Moama, formerly Johnno’s Run, will go to CLRS’s Opening Doors Project.
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steve Huntley
All of our fundraising supports our Opening Doors Project, which is an initiative that supports CLRS to build homes for people with disability in our community, enabling them to live more independent lives.
CLRS has Opening Doors Project ambassadors who give their voices to help the organisation access funding, support with fundraising and raise awareness of the project within the community.
The grand opening of CLRS’s Open Doors Project.
Photo by
Aidan Briggs
You can also become a volunteer board member at CLRS. This is a critical support that makes sure good governance and strategic leadership is in place for the organisation.
Volunteering at CLRS has many benefits, including promoting wellbeing, learning new skills, meeting new people and gaining friendships, and can also be a pathway to employment. Volunteers give back to the Echuca Moama community.
Volunteering at CLRS is for everyone, regardless of your skills, abilities, or interests.
The organisation would like to thank all past and present volunteers for their contribution because without them, CLRS wouldn’t be as successful as it is now.
As little as one hour can make a difference for people with disabilities and to the events that CLRS delivers.
If you want to connect with your community, are interested in volunteering or want to learn more about volunteering with Community Living & Respite Services, phone 5480 2388 or go to clrs.org.au/job/volunteer/
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